20 Jun Who’s your client?

Posted at 01:00h in Business Practices, Community Interpreting, Court Interpreting, Immigration, Janis Palma, Recent Posts by Observer Editor 5 Comments

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Interpreters have many clients. I don’t mean who pays. I mean who is the beneficiary of your interpreting services. Yes, we do see whoever hires us as the “client,” but as a professional service, that is not the most precise way of defining a “client.”...

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09 May Best Practices for Witness Preparation

Posted at 01:00h in Court Interpreting, Ethics, Interpreters, Janis Palma, Professional Practices, Recent Posts, The Profession by Observer Editor 15 Comments

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I was talking to a friend and colleague recently about all the in-person work we’re starting to get in court, both civil and criminal. She mentioned, in passing, that she had received a call to prepare a witness for trial. The conversation turned to the...

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01 Apr 2022 Annual Election

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29 Mar One profession, one name

Posted at 10:34h in Advocacy, Business Practices, Community, Court Interpreting, Interpreters, Interpreting, Janis Palma, Recent Posts, The Profession by Observer Editor 23 Comments

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Can we please standardize the name we use to refer to our profession and those who practice it? There are so many variations on a theme: legal interpreting, community interpreting, court interpreting, public-service interpreting, judicial interpreting, and of course, the one name adopted by our...

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15 Mar Continuing Education

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14 Mar Things We’re Not Talking About

Posted at 16:36h in Advocacy, Community, Immigration, Interpreters, Janis Palma, Leadership, Recent Posts, Volunteer by Observer Editor 5 Comments

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This is the war everyone hoped would never happen. And yet it has happened. Most of us had never paid attention to Ukraine, except perhaps when it came up during the testimony before Congress in 2019 regarding Marie Yovanovitch, a former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine....

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08 Mar Business As Usual

Posted at 18:06h in Business Practices, Hilda Zavala-Shymanik, Interpreters, Mentoring, Personal Growth, Professional Development, Recent Posts, The Profession by Observer Editor 4 Comments

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I had my first business at the age of twenty. It was a furniture store a block away from the main plaza in downtown Celaya, Mexico. Business has been in my blood since I was born. My father was an entrepreneur and we, the sisters,...

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28 Feb Main Conference Sessions

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28 Feb Presenter Biographies

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21 Feb Team Interpreting is a Matter of Due Process

Posted at 03:00h in Advocacy, Attorney Education, Certification, Court Interpreting, Ethics, Immigration, Interpreters, Interpreting, Janis Palma, Leadership, Recent Posts, Self care, The Profession by Observer Editor 11 Comments

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“Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits recipients of federal financial assistance from discriminating based on national origin by, among other things, failing to provide meaningful access to individuals who are limited English proficient (LEP)” (lep.gov). In state courts, where Title VI...

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